Effects of Climate Change on Sustainable Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is already starting to impact agricultural production around the globe, sometimes making production more difficult and sometimes creating new opportunities for food production. Agricultural sustainability may be especially threatened by climate extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, and floods. However, not all changes induced by climate change are necessarily negative; some may even be positive. Both predicting the impact of climate change on agriculture and finding ways to mitigate these changes, requires diverse skills, expertise, and experience. Adaptation is a social and cultural process, so it is important to ascertain how farmers adapt, which factors farmers take into account, and what other actors can contribute to the adaptation process. This Special Issue aims at highlighting the state-of-the-art development in climate-resilient practices, including adaptive management practices employed, and to showcase promising adaptive and resource conservation agricultural practices to maintain the productivity of agroecosystems under changing climatic conditions, not ignoring the role of risk quantification, transfer, and financing. We welcome original research articles, technical articles, reviews, meta-analyses, and perspective articles pertaining to the following aspects, even if not exhaustively:

• Impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production;
• Agricultural adaptation to climate change;
• Climate risk mitigating tools;
• Roles of different actors in adaptation processes of agriculture to climate change;
• Framing sustainability indicators for climate-resilient agriculture;
• The role of climate smart agriculture (CSA) in addressing sustainability and resilience;
• IoT and artificial intelligence to support the risk adaptation and mitigation in a circular economy approach;
• International initiatives/policies for climate resilient and adaptive agricultural practices;
• Implications for insurers as investor and risk managers from climate change and agriculture.

Prof. Dr. Fabian Capitanio
Dr. Pier Paolo Miglietta
Prof. Donatella Porrini
Dr. Giulio Fusco
Guest Editors

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